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Properly designed public banks would be safer than private banks while promoting economic growth.

Fitch and S&P have now joined Moody’s in downgrading the Renton, Washington-based healthcare system’s $6 billion of bonds.

Daily report for April 22, 2022

Revenues were also up compared to the Oversight Board's projection made on Jan. 27.

“I would say that 50 basis points will be on the table for the May meeting,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday.

Investors pulled more from municipal bond mutual funds in the latest week, with Refinitiv Lipper reporting $3.548 billion of outflows, down from $4.106 billion of outflows in the previous week.

Moody's lifted Illinois one notch to Baa1, marking the state's third rating upgrade over the last year and first since lawmakers passed a state budget.

The future is uncertain and population shifts may take decades, but city officials need to start preparing for climate-driven migration now, says a new report.

State and local governments are flush with cash and well-positioned to embrace the coming storm, experts say.

A lot is at stake for facilities like Los Angeles International Airport, which has a $15 billion capital improvements program underway.

Through BondLink’s new ESG solution, the system provides investors with updates on an ongoing basis — not just at the time of sale — about the projects selected, their progress and any potential impacts.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s second quarter meeting will feature discussion of one of the board's more controversial recent publications.

Daily report for April 21, 2022

Several additional steps would be needed before the private operator of the transmission and distribution grid would be removed.

The Investment Company Institute reported investors pulled $7.2 billion from municipal bond mutual funds, the largest figure since the outlier months of March 2020 when investors yanked $24 billion in two weeks.

The budget represents a turn-around as the county got a handle on pandemic-related expenses.

Alex Wiggins, CEO of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, said it will be looking at a combination of bond authority and public-private partnerships to help pay for transportation infrastructure projects.

The two active municipal bond insurers wrapped $8.176 billion in the first quarter of 2022, a 3.25% decrease from the $8.442 billion of deals done in the first three months of 2021.

Kaufman Hall & Associates, Municipal Capital Markets Group and Montague DeRose & Associates moved up into the top 10.

Steven Washington joined Chapman and Cutler this week as a partner.